Sweet and sour cabbage is in my earliest of memories of living on the island. As new friends and neighbours invited us to dinner, it seemed that all seemed to make it, most likely because cabbage is one of the easiest vegetables to store and is inexpensive. It didn’t matter whose house dinner was at, there…
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Lentil & Veggie Cottage Pie
GF / Vegan One of my long-time favourite dinners is Shepherd’s Pie. When we were very young, Mom would set up the meat grinder and have us turn the handle over and over, mincing leftovers of roast beef, followed by onion and carrot. Mixed with some peas and gravy, then topped with potatoes, it was delicious, robust…
Potato Salad – “Mom’s”
We spent our summers on the islands surrounding Vancouver and Vancouver Island. One thing that was always available in Howe Sound and parts of Georgia Strait was New Potatoes – cool early summers always gave us these in abundance. Now when I see the first new potatoes of the season at a farmer’s market, it…
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